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Jack Bogle and Vanguard’s $5,000,000,000,000 Question
Rare is the man whose form and visage have been captured both in a larger-than-life-size bronze statue and a six-inch-tall plastic bobblehead doll. John Clifton […]
Remember When People Told the Truth?
Daniel Langleben has a terrible sense of timing. The Penn neuroscientist and psychiatrist was the proud lead author on a scholarly treatise published last November […]
Jason Peters: Twilight Before the Hall
Jason Peters sat stoically at his stall in the center of a bustling visitors locker room, still in his game pants and wearing a black sweat-soaked […]
Chris Matthews on Growing Up Catholic in Philadelphia
I REMEMBER WHEN “THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH” came to Hunting Park. It really happened. I Googled it. In 1950, the Barnum & Bailey Circus […]
The Energy Hub Architect Talks Politics and Plausibility
Phil Rinaldi is the CEO of Philadelphia Energy Solutions, which runs the South Philly refinery. He’s also the public face of the campaign to make […]
“You Can’t Do It Safely.”
The prospect of a new Philadelphia Energy Hub is usually talked about in terms of the jobs it could create, a sort of giant economic […]
The New Family Vacation
Booking five hotel rooms and making sure everyone knows what time to meet at the breakfast buffet—these are the things that suck the fun out […]
Arlene Ackerman Profile: Queen Arlene
ARLENE ACKERMAN, OUR schools CEO, is small and sturdy, with large, soft, maternal eyes and a short bobbed haircut that is at once modern and […]
The Psychopath Test
“I heard a story about her once,” said James. “She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked […]
Nightmare on Greenleaf Circle
The first sign of life at 30 Greenleaf Circle came early, on that particular day last summer, when a man stepped out the front door […]
Can a Style-Conscious 30-Something Like Me Ever Become a Fan of QVC?
Item H-214501: Serta Pillowtop Mattress I’ve been watching QVC for four hours and 19 minutes when I call out to my husband: “Hey, babe? I […]
Squires: The Last Boys’ Club
He never said it in so many words, but here’s something I learned from my dad when I was a kid: Act like you own […]
We’re All Getting Screwed by Fees, Pretty Much All the Time
There’s something perversely satisfying about learning that someone who screwed you over is, in turn, getting screwed. That was my first thought when I read […]
The Citified Q&A: Is Doug Oliver the Real Deal?
[Editor’s Note: Want to meet Doug Oliver and watch Holly Otterbein put him through the paces in person? Join us for Philly mag’s Candidate Conversations event this Monday at 6 […]
Feature: College Admissions: The New Rules of Getting In
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania—a.k.a. the gatekeeper at Philly’s most prestigious college—is talking about the wait-list. The wait-list, for […]